Word: stretch
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...terminally ill—your sense of wonder has yet to be crushed. With clubs and societies for almost any conceivable interest, big names making speeches, and interesting and esoteric lectures, odds are there’s something to do worth your time. This is time to stretch those proverbial wings, to mingle, to greet, to sign up for the ballroom dance team. Don’t be that kid who sits in his room and plays Warcraft...
...Harvard midterms stretch interminably long. For months, you will have important exams, all of which will be labeled “midterms.” Combine exam-induced, soul-crushing stress with the seasonal deterioration of the weather and the stage is set for Seasonal Affective Disorder, which may occupy your soul and grind you into the earth. For the dedicated Harvard student, ambitious November is a challenge well...
...President himself is unchanged, say people who spend private hours with him, even as he gears up for the stretch run of the midterm-election campaign, which has Republicans more worried than they have been in a dozen years. His traditional summer sojourn at his ranch was cut from a month to nine days, but he dived into the gritty, sweaty labor that he loves. Each week aides put a new photo album on a credenza outside the door to the Oval Office for the President and visitors to savor; the current edition features Bush in T shirt, ball...
That being the case, a light beam traveling through expanding space is stretched as well, its wavelength getting longer as it goes. Long-wavelength light is red; stretch it out longer and it becomes infrared light and then microwaves and, finally, long-wavelength radio waves. The flash that came from the Big Bang started out as visible light; by now, 13.7 billion years later, it's still streaming through space, but it has been stretched so much that astronomers have to use microwave antennas to detect it. The earliest galaxies came after the Big Bang, so their light...
...John Abizaid, the Centcom commander, laid out a laundry list of concerns to the Senate Armed Services Committee last March. While Abizaid spoke about the Horn of Africa, the threats stretch across much of the continent. "The Horn of Africa is vulnerable to penetration by regional extremist groups, terrorist activity, and ethnic violence. Al-Qaeda has a history of planning, training for, and conducting major terrorist attacks in this region, such as the bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The volatility of this region is fueled by a daunting list of challenges, to include extreme poverty, corruption, internal...